Hate to say this "But I'm so sick of this rain"!!!

Hate to say this "But I'm so sick of this rain"!!!

Not just the rain but the snow we had that peopl like Jal are still getting. That moisture is still in the math so to speak. We haven't dired out all year but for maybe a few short times.

We just had the second major thunderstorm of the day today the second bringing golf ball sized hail here and a tornado just a few miles from us and more that tore up Lambert Airport East of us. They were saying that this last storm was dumping 2 1/2 inches and hour. West of us they had grapefruit sized hail.

That is neither here nor there we have been having storms like this 2 or more times a week each time with hail and heavy rain. Normally lately we have a day or 2 brake than a few days of rain, rinse and repeat.

It is supposed to rain again tomorrow than again Sun through Tue with a break than maybe again next Fri through the weekend.

My yard and garden are so fricking soaked it can't handle any more rain. I have garlic, onions, lettuce, peas, carrots, cabbage etc even some tomatoes in the ground. I am worried I might loose some if not all due to suffocation. It is just so dang wet and we are not getting the chance to dry out. My garden drains well but if you could see how soaked it is you would understand. There is just no where for the water to go right now. It is not flooded right now but during the rains it flood quickly eventually it drains off but it is still so wet it is not funny.

Of course this summer I will be praying for rain and we won't have any so tit for tat right.

Northern California and the PNW are experiencing the normal January/February pattern of storms building in the Pacific like berms and moving east towards us. This phenomenon is referred to with the phrase "the storm door is open" in the rainy winter.

HowSomEver...it is April. April the 22nd. Karfreitag to German speakers, Santa Semana to Spanish speakers, Good Friday to English speakers of the Christian persuasion. Passover is at its midpoint (First Seder was Monday night). All long-established signs of spring. Even the calculation of the date of Easter (the first Sunday *after* the first full moon *after* the Spring equinox) should have given the hint that warm weather, of the kind useful for young, tender, growing plants--certainly not baseball-sized hail, unrelenting cold rain, etc.--was in order.

I haven't planted *any* warm-weather seedlings yet (in my new 32 sq.ft. raised bed rented from the city) due to knee mishaps and two falls this week, but the kicker, overarching everything, is the too-cold weather. I can only get to this specific raised bed, which has a full-sun, southern exposure, from 8:00 to 5:00 Mon-Thurs and 8:00 to 4:00 Fri. No evenings, no weekends, to tend the plants and cover them or give them any protection from unwonted rain or sudden temperature plummets.

(I think the city was taken by surprise at the popularity of its "Rent-a-Raised-Bed" program; this is Year #1. They arranged access *only* when the Seniors' Center--where the beds are!--is open. Maybe the city hasn't heard that a few people still have jobs? not me, not much of a job, but many do; mightn't they want to work a raised bed? And maybe the city doesn't know that plants need help when the weather changes suddenly?)

I still have the heat on in the house. Last year we had actually turned it OFF in mid-May, having forgotten to turn it off at the beginning of May. We gave up and turned it back on in mid-June after a series of nights in the 40s. It's still on from that re-lighting of the pilot.

I hope Gixx's tedious rains are not the beginning of another 1993 Mississippi River scenario. And I don't want to run the heat this "summer," either.

I'm tired of the rain right now too, and like you, I will be desperately needing rain by July and August.

We had 3 days of rain in a row with at least an inch on each day. There has been a total around 4 inches in 3 days. I checked to see how the soil moisture was in the garden today. The area that has had the plants and I have walked on frequently is not suffocatingly moist. On the other hand, the area I recently tilled and haven't walked on/planted has a little too much moisture in the lower layers.

My onion plants appear to be developing a fungal disease. I need to spray them. With all of this rain, we have had 3 separate storms with strong wind gusts. The first storm snapped a broccoli plant and the last storm broke a few onion tops.

We are having a nice break in the rain today through Sunday. My area is forecasted to have another 3-5 inches on Monday through Wednesday. It would be nice to have this rain in the summer.

Yeah, the US weather pattern went from winter, skipped most of the spring and went straight to summer.....at least where I am. We even might have our first tropical system of the year in the Atlantic already. It's been really dry and hot and with little rain. I'm watering my plants 3 times a day.

Just up there watching the news you may see us your news we went national with the destruction this last storm brought. They actually closed the airport due to significant damage. There are houses and power lines destroyed all over. Welcome to St Louis as they say.

I hear ya. We have gotten rain for 2 weeks in a row now. Most of April it has been cloudy, and the plants are hardly growing because we have maybe seen the sun three times in April so far. It has snowed here like 5 times in April, which never usually happens.

It does seem like it is hard to get the right amount of water... Last year we had a horrible drought, no water at all for four months. Now we are getting pounded with water. I keep thinking there must be some way to balance it out, ship some of all our excess to some desert place....

I am worried about all those wildflower bare root plants I planted, either getting washed down the hill or drowning...

After the drought last year, I hate to complain about rain, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing...

And it's because of the darn rain. OK, it's not entirely because of the rain...but it is.

You see, I haven't cultivated/tilled my garden yet because it has yet to dry out. I'm not sure how true this is, but i heard if you cultivate soggy soil, it will create clods that will be there all summer. Therefore: I've not yet planted the onions .

Gix, I entirely feel your pain and as you can see......I really like home-grown onions .

Hope you get some dry weather soon.

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It's raining again, just had some big boomers roll through. At least I'm using the gentle rain now to water my potted tomatoes, the only thing I didn't water yesterday.

Cynthia first off I hope you are felling better and get to go out to your garden when /if the weather ever allows us. Secondly you were talking about the floods. We have been getting ready for a while already. Sandbagging is already going on just waiting for it. The ground is so saturated and the north snows have yet to really start melting so it's gonna be a wild ride for us for sure. 1993 was insane it may be like that if not worse this year.

Soil you know what you can do with your "perfect" spring don't you.

applestar Funny you say rain barrels. I was thinking about this again just yesterday. But I would a 100 gallon or better with all this rain. I have though in a perfect world I would have a huge underground barrel , maybe a few hundred gallons. All of my gutters at this point are funneled to the back yard to dump stations. Actually one of them is in my garden yeah I need to fix that but it doesn't seem to hurt anything. But it would be somewhat easy to funnel them further down the yard to a massive container. I would than have to pump it back up but that is for another day.

rainbowgardener I am worried about some of my stuff as well. I don't mind the rain but we can't catch a break for it to dry out at all. My whole entire yard is like a swamp and more rain most of next week it could ugly. Though at this point everything seems to doing alright. Rain is one thing but this is ridiculous. Another month and it will high 90's no rain 100% humidity so what are you gonna do.

garden5 you don't need to till for onions. Just use a hoe to make rows or whatever, they don't get planted deep you know. You really need to get them in soon. I have had onions in for about 3 week maybe 4 now. They are doing good even with all the rain.

Oh yeah and St. Louis Lambert Airport is shut down due to the storms last night. They had serious damage, roofs blowing off, widows breaking, cars being moved, airplanes moving on their own. It's ugly. It should be up by tomorrow maybe later today at least part of it.